Seizures and Naval Movements Reported off Venezuela
Off Venezuela near La Guaira on December 21 Italian cruiser Giovanni Bausan captured a sloop coming from the east while British cruiser Tribune departed for Port of Spain with the schooner Mercedes in tow. German training ship Stosch arrived and left with Mme von Pilgrim-Baltazzi to Curaçao as a German cruiser Gazelle towed two large schooners toward Trinidad. French cruiser Troude met the French chargé d’affaires at Caracas before sailing. Over 500 harbor workers were dismissed due to the blockade, and the U S president showed willingness to mediate though remote from Washington. European powers awaited a reply on arbitration under The Hague treaty.
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LA Guaira
Venezuela
Giovanni Bausan
Tribune
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Mercedes
Stosch
Mme. von Pilgrim-Baltazzi
Curacoa
Gazelle
Puerto Cabello
Troude
M Uievreux
Caracas
Washington
Blockade Begins at Port of Spain During Venezuelan Crisis
The blockade of Venezuelan ports began at midnight with British ships Indefatigable Alert Tribune Columbine and Rocket off the coast. German ship Vineta sails to reinforce Gazelle Panther Falke and Stosch, while Fantome remains stuck. American battleships Kearsarge and Alabama arrive as four Venezuelan vessels are guarded. General Ferreras, Venezuelan revolutionist envoy in Ciudad Bolivar, has raised duties totaling 450000 and ordered munitions from Port of Spain.
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Port OF Spain
Trinidad
Indefatigable
Alert
Tribune
Columbine
Rocket
Ariadne
Douglass
Vineta
la Guaira
Gazelle
Panther
Falke
Stosch
Charlotte
St. Lucia
Fantome
Barrancas
Orinoco
Haggard
Venezuela
Great Britain
High Seas
Margarita Island
Mr. Haggard
Herr von Pilgrim-Baltazzi
Caracas
Castro
United Stats
Kearsarge
Alabama
Higginson
Restaurador
General Ferreras
Ciudad Bolivar
Washington AwaIts News Amidst Venezuelan Impasse
State Department officials told reporters there is nothing public on the latest Venezuelan imbroglio. Dispatches from embassies and Minister Bowen in Caracas are confidential, with no new changes since yesterday when The Hague tribunal arbitration was discussed and the President urged as arbitrator by the allies.
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Washington
State Department
Europe
Bowen
Caracas
Roosevelt
Hague Tribunal
Roosevelt Likely Accepts World Arbitration Role
London dispatches report President Roosevelt may accept arbitration over the Venezuelan dispute. Secrecy surrounds negotiations as cables surge between Washington and London. If confirmed, the move could ease guarantees and hostilities, with a formal submission to the foreign office expected tomorrow.
Powers not in favor of the Hague Tribunal
Rome dispatch reports all allies not considering sending the Venezuelan crisis to The Hague court. King Victor Emmanuel and Foreign Minister Prinetti discussed the matter at a morning conference and expressed satisfaction at the peaceful developments. Signor Prinetti notified Ambassador Meyer of Italy's participation in the blockade of Venezuela.
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Rome
Hague
Victor Immanuel
Prinetti
Signor Prinetti
Meyer
Italy
Venezuela
Caracas Breathing Space Shrinks to One Month of Food
Paris dispatch reports Venezuelan revolutionists in Higuerete and Riochico regions impose heavy contributions under imprisonment threat on foreigners and natives. El Mocho Hernandez’s conciliatory manifesto meets a cool reception as Caracas faces only a one month food supply with cattle blocked from entering the city.
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Paris
Caracas
Higuerete
Riochico
Castro Accepts Roosevelt as Arbiter for Venezuela
Caracas December 21. President Castro accepts Roosevelt's appointment to arbitrate the Venezuela dispute in the name of Venezuela. The move signals official approval of the U S role in resolving the long running diplomatic fracas.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Castro
Roosevelt
Falling Parish Attendance Endangers St. Stephen's Church
At St Stephen s Catholic Church on Hanover street the Rev Denis J O Farrell said parishioners have fallen by nearly two thirds in nine years and warned the parish is doomed if decline continues He doubted union with St Mary s would create strength enough to compare with other churches.
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St. Stephen's ‘Catholic
Hanover Street
Denis J. O'Farrell
St. Mary's
St. Stephen’s
Burglary Mysteries Pieces Readied for Display
Police tally about $1500 in jewelry silverware and clothing from multiple break ins. Items include napkin rings engraved JMCF and Gracie, two watches, a golden open face, a dress suit and a banjo. Suspect Fred Gibson captured with revolver and other tools. Captain Hanley commends the team. property owners sought.
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Station 10
J. McC. F
Gracie
W. F
Dayton
Beaten grocer dies after assault in Fall River
Gaspard O Vandal a grocer on the East Side of Fall River was found badly battered in an alley near his home around 10:30 last night. He died after being robbed of about 200 dollars kept in his trousers. Ernest King of the oyster schooner Mikado New Haven Conn was arrested this afternoon on suspicion. Police found a heavy jagged club near the scene and hope it identifies the owner. Victims friends say robbery was the motive.
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Fall River
Gaspard O. Vandal
Ernest King
New Haven
Conn
King
Mqnor
Vandal
Mary Fournier
City employees paid different wages for similar work
At the Central Labor Union meeting it was stated that city workers receive unequal pay with political pull. The executive committee was asked to investigate. Retiring president James R. Crozier received complimentary resolutions from President Driscoll. A sorrow resolution was passed for Secretary J. L. Turner of the B. T. C.
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Central Labor Union
James R. Crozier
Driscoll
J. L. Turner
Union passes resolutions to curb non union teamster goods
Teamsters Union Local 25 adopted measures urging the Allied Printing Trades Council the Brewery Workers and the machinists to prevent their members from accepting goods from non union teamsters.
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Teamsters’ Union, Local 25
Allied Printing Trades Council
Brewery Workers
Machinists
False Alarm Ringer Probed by Roxbury Police
Roxbury police hunt a man who rang two false fire alarms early yesterday. The first came from Box 278 at Walnut avenue and Walnut park at 12 38 a m. The second from Box 262 on Marcella street at 1 04 a m. A Walnut avenue resident saw a man in a light overcoat and the stranger claimed he was testing the wires.
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Roxbury
Walnut Avenue
Walnut Park
Marcella Street
Gaelic School Session Promotes Irish Language Movement
At yesterday’s Gaelic School session held at 1151 Washington Street the superintendent spoke in Irish on the duty of the Irish race in America regarding the language movement. Questions revealed ancestors originated in Scythia and advanced ancient civilization before the Christian era, and migration to Europe via Egypt ending in Ireland as a learned people.
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Washington Street
America
Scythia
Europe
Egypt
Ireland
Coal stations open in Somerville under Mayor Glines
Mayor Glines opens coal stations in Cedar street station, Veteran Firemen headquarters corner of Prospect street and Somerville avenue, and Ward 7 West Somerville. He distributed 100 tons of coal priced at 35 cents a day and financed the purchase personally with plans for more once sold.
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Glines
Somerville
Cedar Street
Prospect Street
Somerville Avenue
Ward 7
West
Beatrice Dot Becomes A Christmas Tree Miracle
Dr. Bartlett encounters Beatrice Dot a brown eyed girl living in a poor court. He buys her a true Christmas tree and dolls for Dot, skates for Johnny Kane, and in a twist of fate reunites with Alice Wingate the widow mother. The emotional moment ends with Dot declaring the tree will not melt and Bartlett calling it his best Christmas.
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Johnny Kane
Johnny
Dot
Dr. Bartlett
Beatrice
Little Dot
Alice Wingate
Alice
Robert Bartlett
Choates Arrive in Constantinople for Diplomatic Visit
American ambassador to Great Britain Mr. Choate and Mrs. Choate reached Constantinople on December 21 and were greeted by the American legation staff. They went to the British embassy to spend several days as guests of Sir N R OConnor.
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Constantinople
Funeral of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant in New York
Funeral services for Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant were held in a Riverside Drive mausoleum with about 600 attendees including Governor Odell, Elihu Root, Andrew Carnegie, and General Frederick D. Grant. Clergy from Methodist and Episcopal churches led hymns and prayers, closing with a poem and the hymn Abide With Me.
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New York
Riverside Drive
Ulyssess. Grant
Grant
Odell
Major Low
Elihu Root
Barker
James Grant Wilson
Granville Dodge
Horatio C. King
Charles F. Roe
Forefathers Day Service in Plymouth Marks Pilgrim Landing Anniversary
Services were held at the First Church in Plymouth to celebrate the 282nd anniversary of the Pilgrims landing. The New England Society of Brooklyn presented two mosaic windows symbolizing civil and religious liberty, accepted by Pilgrim Society president Hon. Arthur Lord. Rev. John Duckson delivered the sermon with a Brooklyn delegation present.
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Plymouth
First Church
Unitarian
New England Society of Brooklyn
Arthur Lord
Pilgrim Society
John Duckson
Brooklyn Society
Desperate row ends badly in South End attack
A violent Sunday dispute at No 8 Middlesex street left Vincenzo Bloise and John Mowrey severely injured and charged with mutual assault. Mowrey, bleeding heavily, damaged his own hand while Bloise suffered head wounds. Police hurried both to shelter rather than hospital for aid. Eloise, an Italian, lay unconscious as bystanders aided the victims.
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Middlesex Street
Vincenzo Bloise
Tyler Street
John Mowrey
Division 5
Hquor
Vuth
O'Rourke
Dedham Street
Manning
Curtis
Watts
Eloise
Mowrey
Bloise
McQueeney
Canadian Woman Tries Suicide After Lover’s Quarrel
Carrie Arsneault a young Canadian woman attempted suicide by drinking sulpho-naphthol at her room 68 Cambridge Street last evening. She was taken to the Relief station in serious condition but is expected to recover. Police say a quarrel with her lover sparked the act.
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Carrie Arsneault
Cambridge Street
Mayflower Descendants Observe Forefathers Day in Mass
At Trinity Church yesterday afternoon the third service of the Society of Mayflower descendants in Massachusetts commemorated the Pilgrims landing. The gathering featured the singing of America and an address by Rev. Henry Sylvester Nash, D. D.
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Trinity Church
Society of Mayflower Descendants
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Singing of
Henry Sylvester Nash
Thompson and Johnson tease about late homeward conduct
Thompson jokes about a wife who once taught and forced him to write a hundred times on a slate I must be home by 10 o'clock while Johnson responds about understanding life with a teacher wife.
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Thompson
Johnson
Dr Lorenz Boston Schedule Reveals Daylong Hospital Tour
A detailed itinerary lists Dr. Lorenz arriving at Huntington avenue station and visiting Children’s Hospital for a 3 30 P M presentation, opening a Boston clinic, dining at Hotel Somerset, attending Sultan of Suiu at Tremont Theatre, and hosting physicians events across Oct 24 to Dec 22 with 10 000 noted.
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Huntington Avenue
Copley Square
Children’s Hospital
Boston
Hotel Somerset
Tremont Theatre
Somerset
Cambridge
Brookline
Newtons
Algonquin Club
Somerset Hotel
Boston to welcome Austrian hip disease specialist
Dr Adolph Lorenz the Vienna expert on congenital hip dislocation arrives by train this morning and will be greeted by leading Boston surgeons at Huntington avenue station. He will visit the Children's Hospital, view cases, select those to operate at 4 pm, then stay at the Hotel Somerset. About 15 to 18 local cases are deemed suitable for operation with many more already examined and benefiting from his visit.
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Bay State Limited
New York
Huntington Avenue
Adolph Lorenz
Vienna
United States
Lorenz
Boston
Huntington Avenue Station
Children’s Hospital
Massachusetts Avenue
Gainsboro Street
Mueller
Somerset
Double Funeral Held in Roxbury for Brown and Newcomb
The funeral for William H. Brown and his sister Mrs Louise Newcomb was conducted yesterday at the Winthrop Street Church Roxbury with Rev Mr Taylor officiating.
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William H. Brown
Louise Newcomb
Winthrop Street
Roxbury
Mr. Taylor
Labor World Notes Rally Rubber Workers into New International
At the AFL convention in New Orleans rubber workers voted to form a separate international union. Thomas J. Edwards, president of the Cambridge Central Labor Union, is named president of the new body with C. E. Akerstrom of Concord Junction as secretary treasurer. Also noted are officer elections in Coal Hoisting Engineers and Boilermakers unions, and a joint decision by Freight Clerks and Freight Handlers unions to publish a sick and death relief fund souvenir, with G. L. Childs as sole subscription agent.
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New Orleans
American Federation of Labor
Thomas J. Edwards
Cambridge Central Labor Union
Rubber Workers’ Union
City
New International
C. E. Akerstrom
Concord Junction
Wesley A. Goodwin
A. J. Tighe
A. L. Morrison
A. W. Daniels
William Tormsburg
Frank Murphy
Owen Marley
Boilermakers’ Union
William McNabe
Coleman Costello
Michael J. Maloney
James Gallino
William H. Courser
Thomas R. Keenan
Thomas Harries
John McDonald
Union 1817
Union 628
G. L. Childs
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London
Foreign Office
Isaac Seligman
Carrie Hayes
John L. Pearsel
Waumbeck Street
Fred Gibson
R. Lester Goodrich
David Cohen
Warren Street
A. W. Weysse
Albemarle Chambers
Nova Scotia
Jimmy
John Hanley
Carr
Plumer
Brickley
Toomey
Gibson
Bade
Germany
Ogestons
Warnores
Caribbean
Sunday Post
Ella M. Bangs
Byron Avenue
Brockton, Mass
Choates
U.S. Grant
South End
Mayflower
DR. Lorenz
Opera
Pesta Ns
Schei
Chicago
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Americe Ee Peewee
Phelan
Steptoe
Boylston St
Hotel Touraine
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